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>You cannot think with images I disagree, and I think the way computers have made us regress to a purely textual interchange format as the common denominator i
by jochung 9y ago
>You cannot think with images
I disagree, and I think the way computers have made us regress to a purely textual interchange format as the common denominator is an unrecognized tragedy.
My notes in school used to be richly layed out, mixing diagrams, symbols and formatting as needed, which was trivial on paper. Now I'm typing to you through a predictive text engine because tapping or swiping out words is itself too error prone on this device.
We've created a massive gap between what can be produced and what can be consumed easily, information-wise.
I think the GET/POST nature of the web is also responsible. Rather than make it easy to collaborate in a shared space, we all have to write on little immutable post its and paste them side by side.
- dredmorbius 9y agoWittgenstein would have argued the precise opposite of the quoted point. Ideas are pictures in our minds. That particular point within the article is one of numerous specious and vapid objections it raises.